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Re:A CO2 capture solvent with exceptionally low total costs ... by londons_explore on Sunday April 04, 2021 @06:20AM (#26688228)
The little detail that injecting CO2 into gas and oil wells can help get more gas and oil out of them is the main reason companies are investing in this tech. If the government can be persuaded to pay for the research, all the better!
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Re:A CO2 capture solvent with exceptionally low total costs ... by PaulHoule on Sunday April 04, 2021 @06:57AM (#26688415)
In Texas you can find big pockets of CO2 undeground and pdople havd been driling holes into those and pumping the CO2 into oil wells. Thus the pipeline, injection, etc. are all developed.

CO2 at 1200 psi will mix with oil very well and do wonders getting into pores, but to scale up storage there are not enough oil wells and we'd probably store in saline aquifers.

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